Question

in the early 1900s, white americans, usually protestants, did not consider irish, italian, or jewish immigrants to be white. what does this illustrate?

Answer 1

The social construction of race.

Step-by-step explanation:

The social construction of race is fundamentally a story of power, in which those in positions of political, eco- nomic, and social authority create and recreate categories of difference and assign meaning and value on the basis of those categories to maintain and naturalize their own dominance.

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